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Enforcing His Grace:
A Conversation with Rev. Juliana Taylor
by Catalina Andrade
October’s full moon is a symbol of harvest. The more we nurture the soil, the better the crop will be. What are you harvesting in your own life? Does this autumn represent oncoming change for you? Let us take this time to reflect upon our lives and look inside our spirits to see how well we are listening to our hearts.
Rev. Juliana Taylor, author of Enforcing His Grace, believes that the heart is the center of all illness. If people don’t listen to their hearts, illness consequently invades their bodies, like weeds in a garden.
In Enforcing His Grace, Rev. Taylor relates her personal tale of how she conquered all of her allergies and illnesses with God’s grace. She tells her story as an inspiration for her readers to discover their own path of healing. Recently, she took some time to share her insights, so that all who read these words may find truth and grace.
Vision Magazine: What was your life like before you found God’s grace?
Rev. Juliana Taylor: I was a psychologist. I saw clients and thought that I was centered. By having a PhD in psychology and with all of the training work I did in emotional and anger release, I thought I would be healthy.
I was angry when I started getting sick. It was something that really upset me. I wondered how it was possible because I’d dedicated myself to years of training and working with my clients. When I got sick, at first it wasn’t that intense, but then I got terminally ill. I thought, how could I have done all that work and be here? I couldn’t understand it. I wasn’t a particularly spiritual person, but I was doing that kind of healing work.
VM: When did you decide to give up on the therapy?
JT: When I started getting sick, I realized that something was missing. I’d done all of the different therapies and nothing was working. I was dying. I couldn’t eat food or stand up because I was so weak. I was 60 pounds at the end.
VM: When did your life turn around?
JT: All of a sudden as I was sick, I found myself attracted to the Christian shows on television. There was something there for me. A spiritual Christian church invited me to pray every morning at 6 a.m. and something in me knew that if I went to that meeting every day, I would be healed. Something in me knew, but I couldn’t put it together and I really couldn’t go because I was so sick.
VM: How did your life change when you found a connection with God?
JT: I felt so privileged, like God was spending all of His time with me. I just felt so lifted up. I believed that nothing bad could ever happen to me. I knew that I would be healed. It was very different from church; it was very personal.
The revelation that God gave me was to be impeccable emotionally and to simultaneously have spiritual integrity. I had to learn that path through trial and error. I learned that integrity was about keeping my power. If I didn’t express my truth, I would give my power away. Eventually, I learned that grace was about being able to take it for myself. Even if I did give power away or compromise myself, I didn’t have to be the victim.
Enforcing that grace took awhile. Finally I realized that I was going to have to take it step by step because I kept falling to that pattern of giving power away. Illness is when you have given the power to somebody else. When that happens, the heart shuts down and we become angry, fearful, and the body collapses. The body is just reacting to the heart. It is ridiculous to give medicine to the body when the heart is saying no, this is the area [where] I need to have my power restored.
VM: What was the specific purpose of writing Enforcing His Grace?
JT: In my heart, God has given me a love for sick people and the concept of divine retaliation. When I was sick and broken down, I gradually began a battle that I call retaliation.
To explain, I was so environmentally ill that I couldn’t move into any house. I would live in a little place with all my windows sealed up because I couldn’t be around anything, any people, or any chemicals. Everything was set up for my illness. If I had a little chemical exposure, my whole body would be in pain for weeks. I had to take my power back. If I ate one carrot, it would make me violently ill. By eating 20 carrots, I would enforce my grace. I then moved into a place that had all my allergens because I had to confront the illness. It was a big faith step for me.
My theme was to enforce God’s grace, which is there for everyone no matter what they believe or don’t believe—it doesn’t change the fact that the grace of God is available. We have to open our hearts to know what the heart wants. The problem in my life was that I wasn’t taking care of myself. I wasn’t setting boundaries and it manifested in my body. I couldn’t fight it physically because it wasn’t a physical problem.
VM: What thoughts and emotional “allergies” did you have to fight?
JT: When I believed I had reacted to something, I was very negative. The diagnosis creates a focus. First it was the food. I went into the macrobiotics diet, the rotation diet, the candida diet and I kept learning more and more about the allergies. I was really educating myself in a very negative direction [focused on] illness. I was filling my heart and mind with all those thoughts about what was wrong with the food. Then I would react to the food. It becomes like a vicious cycle that is created by the diagnosis. The diagnosis adds fear and negative focus on the physical body. When diagnosed, the heart knows it is not true. The heart is screaming: I’m distracted now into a belief system that is not going to help me and could kill me.
VM: In what way has having a psychology degree helped you on your journey?
JT: It did influence me of course. I think that it was hard for me to let go of all the knowledge I had. The only way I would use psychology in my practice is by doing anger release. I think that this is fabulous for everybody. The rest of the psychology doesn’t work. I’m not tempted to use it because I went through so much with it on myself. If I had to go back into it, I would lose spiritual power because I would be bringing in an existence that has left the truth. People have to climb the ladder of truth. If someone has the power to do healing and brings in psychology, they are undermining their power.
VM: Is there anything you want to add about Enforcing His Grace?
JT: Enforcing His Grace is just the process of standing on the blessings of God. Love, joy, power, and divine health are the things God wants us to give authority to. We are going to become the spiritual people that we were meant to be. If God has given me this revelation, there are other people who are going to get this revelation and join in. I know that God loves all people the same, whether they are Christian or non-Christian. People have to go in search of the truth.
For more information on Rev. Juliana Taylor and Enforcing His Grace, visit www.enforcinghisgrace.com or call 310.281.3330.